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  • —. Barbara Blackman

  • Glass After Glass

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    Shortlisted for the Kibble Literary Award in 1998.

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    Barbara Blackman’s critically acclaimed memoir. [...] A vivid, generous delightful memoir of family, friends, writing, art, bohemia, blindness, poverty, prosperity and love of life

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    The uncompromising and perceptive autobiography of Barbara Blackman, poet, blind woman, wife and mother. The wife of Charles Blackman and friend of Joy Hester recounts her life amid a generation of artists and free spirits revealing herself to be a woman of wisdom, humour and strength.

    (Source: Trove)

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  • —. Lauren Calloway

  • Darby McCarthy: Against All Odds

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    The inspiring story of one of Australia’s greatest jockeys [...] vividly captures the lows and highs of McCarthy's extraordinary life.

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    Biography of Darby McCarthy, an Aboriginal man from Cunnamulla, described by Johnny Tapp as one of the top five Australian jockeys to have ever ridden.

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  • —. Peter Edwards

  • Arthur Tange : Last of the Mandarins

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    Award-winning biography of Australian public servant Sir Arthur Tange [...] examines the career of a man who served the Chifley, Menzies, Gorton, McMahon, Whitlam and Fraser governments at a time when department heads still wielded considerable power.


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    'The biography of the man who, for over twenty-five years, was arguably Australia's most significant public servant, serving every prime minister, Liberal and Labor, from Ben Chifley to Malcolm Fraser. Tange defined Australian foreign affairs and defence policy for over 25 years and this sheds new light on many of Australia's political crises including the downfall of John Gorton as PM, the fault line in Australian-US relationships during the Whitlam government and the deaths of the Balibo Five in East Timor.

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  • —. Abbas El-Zein

  • Leave to Remain

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    Winner of the Community Relations Commission Award at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards in 2010.

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    Award-winning memoir of growing up in Lebanon and travelling between the Arab and Western worlds.

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    'In Leave to Remain: A Memoir, Abbas El-Zein tells his story of growing up in a middleclass family in civil-war Beirut, a city in the throes of self-destruction, yet obstinately clinging to its cosmopolitan past. El-Zein traces the genesis of a contemporary Middle-Eastern identity - his own - under the influence of culture, religion, history and places far removed from where he grew up: Najaf and Baghdad, Paris, Palestine, London, Sydney and the American far west. With him we travel through a Middle-Eastern life, with an eye on the mundane and the everyday, as well as the cataclysmic events overshadowing them.

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  • —. Mem Fox

  • Mem's the Word

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    Bestselling children’s author Mem Fox reveals the secrets of a writer's life. [...] an endlessly generous reminiscence, full of truth and humour, self-awareness and insight, and the secrets of a writer’s life.


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    'Mem’s the Word is the candid and compelling autobiography of Australia’s most successful children’s author. It begins with Mem’s ancestors settling in Australia and follows her childhood in Africa, her education in Europe, her return to Australia and the trials and successes of her international career as a writer, storyteller and teacher. It unfolds as an endlessly generous reminiscence, full of truth and humour, self-awareness and insight, and the secrets of a writer’s life.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb (Ligature ed.

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  • —. Gwen Harwood

  • Blessed City

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    A collection of letters written before Harwood was the award-winning poet she late became.

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    Award-winning collection of wartime letters from acclaimed poet, Gwen Harward.

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    'Gwen Foster wrote these letters to Lietutenant Thomas (Tony) Riddell when she was working at the War Damage Commission in Brisbane. She married Bill Harwood and became a celebrated poet (who dedicated all her books to Riddell).'

    Source: Abebooks.

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  • —. Hugh Lunn

  • Joh

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    Award-winning journalist and author Hugh Lunn offers a unique perspective on Queensland’s long-serving and controversial premier.

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  • An iconoclastic (and ultimately best-selling) biography of divisive Queensland premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen. (...more)
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  • —. Bede Nairn

  • The Big Fella

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    Respected historian Bede Nairn’s life of Jack Lang, influential Labor politician and two time premier of New South Wales. 


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    Biography of Jack Lang, Premier of NSW who was dismissed by the State Governor during the Depression of the 1930s. It covers Lang's political beliefs and his conflict with people, including his own Party, as well as an in-depth look at the NSW Labor Party in the 1920s - 1930s. (...more)
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  • —. Cassandra Pybus

  • The Devil and James McAuley

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    This award-winning biography of cultural figure James McAuley reveals the extent of his political influence.

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    Focuses on McAuley as a 'political ideologist and cold war warrior' rather than as a poet and critic and concentrates on his involvement, during the war, with A. A. Conlon's Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs and, post-war, with the Democratic Labor Party, the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom and the journal Quadrant. Attempts to explain two important forces in McAuley's life - his religious conversion and his passionate opposition to communism - in terms of a profound belief in the devil . (...more)
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  • —. Dan Sprod

  • Alexander Pearce of Macquarie Harbour

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    Avoiding sensationalism, Dan Sprod carefully pieces together the truth about the infamous 'cannibal convict'.

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    'In this reasoned reconstruction, the exploits of the notorious cannibal-convict, Alexander Pearce, the Man-Eater of Macquarie Harbour and prototype for Marcus Clarke's Gabbett, are traced from his (partly unpublished) confessions to the penal authorities and by exhaustive reference to contemporary records of all kinds. Pearce's two escapes from the hated penal settlement in 1822 and 1823, the fate of his companions, his successful crossing of the mountains and adventures whilst ranging the bush are reconstructed.

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  • —. Arthur Streeton

  • Letters from Smike

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    This fascinating collection of letters from one of our best known painters is ideal reading for anyone interested in Australian art, history and culture.

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    'Streeton's letters express his interests and anxieties about his work, show his development from a romantic youth to a weary old man, and provide an insight into Australian society and the art community from the 1890s to the 1940s.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

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  • —. Anne Whitehead

  • Bluestocking in Patagonia

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    Shortlisted for the Magarey Award.

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    A compelling investigation into the early life of Dame Mary Gilmore that blends biography, history and contemporary travelogue.


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    'Mary Cameron was self-confident, an aspirant writer and feminist - but she also took with her white muslin for a wedding dress; and she married a near illiterate shearer William Gilmore. Their socialist dream foundered before very long and they had to earn their passage home with their baby son - through the impossibly remote country communities of Paraguay and the vast estancias of Argentina to Patagonia, the 'end of the earth' made famous by Darwin and Bruce Chatwin. Anne Whitehead brilliantly counterpoints her own wanderings with Mary's.

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  • —. Alan Yates

  • Ready When You Are, C.B.!

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    How do you become a globally bestselling author—when there’s no internet, no social media, and no one knows who you really are?

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    The autobiography of prolific pulp novelist (particularly known for his crime fiction under the pseudonym Carter Brown, but also the author of science fiction and other works). (...more)
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